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In April, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved DeLa Express LLC’s pre-filing request to construct a 690-mile pipeline in Texas. This approval brings the DeLa Express Project one step closer to...
Category: Eminent Domain / Condemnation
Georgetown and Round Rock in Williamson County will soon join Austin and San Antonio as the latest cities in central Texas to experience I-35 expansions. In April, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) held its first...
Entergy Texas Inc. (ETI) has announced plans to design and construct a 130-mile transmission line, named the SETEX Area Reliability Project, in East Texas over the coming years. This significant infrastructure project will...
Last week, the Texas Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion in favor of the landowner in Texas Department of Transportation v. Self, a case filed by Barron Adler attorneys Nick Laurent and Blaire Knox. The case...
In Texas v. Devillier, a group of landowners in Chambers County sued TxDOT for installing structures on I-10 that caused their properties to flood. The State removed the case to federal court and then filed a motion to...
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Devillier v. Texas Case
April 1, 2024
This past January, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for an ongoing case impacting landowners in Chambers County, outside Houston. In Devillier v. Texas, 77 landowners sued the State, claiming a newly constructed...
Austin’s Project Connect Continues Despite Legal Setbacks
January 27, 2024
In November 2023, opponents of Austin’s Project Connect filed a lawsuit claiming that the new project plans strayed too far from the initial design approved by voters the previous year. Now, the City Council and Austin...
The $9.7 billion I-45 North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP) is slated to continue as planned after a series of public meetings held in December 2023. This year, $150 million worth of work will begin construction...
State Halts Eminent Domain Efforts to Take State Park
December 13, 2023
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has decided to halt its efforts to use eminent domain to seize the land of the former Fairfield State Park in Freestone County, southeast of Dallas, to maintain the property as a...
Barron, Adler, Clough & Oddo Partner Christopher Clough Featured in KUT Article: “Austinites in the path of wider I-35 prepare to be pushed out”
October 25, 2023
Barron, Adler, Clough & Oddo, PLLC’s Christopher Clough sat down with KUT’s Nathan Bernier earlier this month to discuss the eminent domain process, what landowners being affected by I-35’s expansion are...